The network element must use automated mechanisms to alert security personnel to an organizationally defined list of inappropriate or unusual activities with security implications.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-34558	SRG-NET-000092-IDPS-NA	SV-45400r1_rule		Low

Description
Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the network element becomes unable to write events to the audit log, this is known as an audit processing failure. Audit processing failures include software and hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. By immediately displaying an alarm message, potential security violations can be identified more immediately, even when administrators are not logged into the network element Alerting is based on an anomaly analysis of the IDPS application audit log on the organization's central log server, thus this is not a function performed by the IDPS itself.

Description

Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the network element becomes unable to write events to the audit log, this is known as an audit processing failure. Audit processing failures include software and hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. By immediately displaying an alarm message, potential security violations can be identified more immediately, even when administrators are not logged into the network element Alerting is based on an anomaly analysis of the IDPS application audit log on the organization's central log server, thus this is not a function performed by the IDPS itself.

STIG	Date
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) Security Requirements Guide	2012-11-19

Details

Check Text ( C-42749r1_chk )
This requirement is NA for IDPS. No fix required.

Fix Text (F-38797r1_fix)
This requirement is NA for IDPS. No fix required.